We’re proud to unveil the 7th annual Enterprise Tech 30, our data-driven list of the 60 most promising private companies in enterprise technology.
We’re excited to partner with Kay AI as they revolutionize insurance workflows by automating repetitive tasks, letting teams focus on what truly matters.
Shape Security hits $1B valuation with $51M in Series F funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Aporeto for $150m. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Wing is pleased to announce the second annual Wing Summit: Security, taking place February 26 at The Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco. The Wing Summit: Security is by invitation only for CSOs and CISOs to discuss and debate what’s next in security, privacy, and trust. The summit includes interactive content discussions and high-quality networking in an intimate, off-the-record setting.
All of us at Wing are incredibly pleased to welcome Sara Choi as our newest partner! Sara will lead investments and help build companies across Wing’s areas of focus, with a particular emphasis on Digital Life Science.
All of us at Wing are incredibly pleased to welcome Didi Dayton as our Partner and Head of Market Development. At Wing, she will grow and nurture our enterprise customer network and help our portfolio companies develop scalable routes to market.
Wing is pleased to announce Wing Summit: San Francisco, taking place November 18 at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco. The Wing Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only meeting for senior corporate executives and prominent entrepreneurs to discuss and debate what’s next. The summit includes interactive content discussions and high-quality networking in an intimate, off-the-record setting.
Tigera wins 2019 SIENT 16 innovator award. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Obsidian is joining forces with Capsule8 and Signal Sciences to host an exclusive event for CISOs and senior security and IT leaders on September 24th in San Francisco. The Cloud Native Security Summit will bring together senior security practitioners and industry innovators to discuss the changing security requirements for the cloud-native world.
Drip Capital raises $25M in Series B funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
We are pleased to launch the first annual Enterprise Tech 30—an exclusive list of the most promising startups in enterprise tech as determined by the preeminent venture capital investors in the sector.
Trying to make enterprise software fun. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Snowflake appoints Frank Slootman as Chairman and CEO. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Last year Wing unveiled its inaugural study of the changing nature of early stage financing. This is based on our “V21” analysis, which includes only technology companies financed by one of a select group of the industry’s top venture firms. This year’s analysis reveals an acceleration of the trends that we measured last year. The Seed phase is rapidly expanding to encompass a broad segment of company development. Meanwhile, Series A investors are applying ever-stricter and ever-more mature investment criteria, looking for factors traditionally reserved for the Series B. Now more than ever, “Seed is the new A, and A is the new B”.
Enjoy a quick look at how top investors are fueling fast series A and seed rounds. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
To our knowledge, SetSail is the first independent company to develop an AI-powered sales compensation system. The SetSail system is equally rooted in the fields of machine learning and behavioral economics. The ML part taps into primary data sources to make an objective measurement of deal status. Principles of behavioral economics are used to offer real-time incentives that reward forward progress, even before the deal closes.
The Wing Briefing is an expertly-curated summary of the most important news in tech as relevant to corporate executives, founders, and venture investors.
At this year’s RSA, we held meetings with CISOs/CSOs, entrepreneurs, and government officials over two days, and we hosted the inaugural Wing Summit on Security in an off-the-record, closed-door setting. In addition, we held pre-RSA research calls to understand key security issues and priorities.
Obsidian Security announces industry’s first platform for intelligent identity protection driven by machine learning. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
We have been waiting to invest in precisely what Obsidian has built since the founding of Wing – Identity as the new Security Perimeter – as we are in a world where the traditional network-based security perimeter, aka the Firewall Complex, is becoming ever more irrelevant to the enterprise with the transition from On-Premise to SaaS Applications, Cloud Infrastructure, and Mobile Usage.
Meet Ordr – the comprehensive closed-loop security platform for hyper-connected enterprises. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Palo Alto Networks announces its intent to acquire Demisto. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Gong nabs $40M to enhance CRM with voice recognition. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Gong raises $40M to transform sales with AI. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Over the past two months, Wing hosted the first two in its private dinner series specifically for tech CEOs. The dinner series is called “The CEO Vault” and is limited to 6 private company CEOs each.
The Wing Academy is an exclusive, invitation-only series for startup Founders and CEOs to learn on domain topics of critical importance to company-building. The Academy features a curriculum taught by leading entrepreneurs in Business Tech and delivered through a combination of frameworks, data sets, case studies, and interactive dialogue.
Wing is pleased to announce the Wing Summit on Security, taking place on March 4, 2019 at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco. The Wing Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only meeting for senior corporate executives and prominent entrepreneurs to discuss and debate what’s next. The summit includes interactive content discussions and high-quality networking in an intimate, off-the-record setting.
All of us at Wing are incredibly excited to welcome Sunil Chokshi as our Talent Partner. In this role, Sunil will proactively develop and support key talent relationships across a variety of functional areas, with the goal of helping our early-stage portfolio companies scale.
We are thrilled to welcome Rajeev Chand, long-time friend of Wing, as our Partner and Head of Research. At Wing, Rajeev will drive Wing’s thought leadership, connections, and visibility. He will conduct and present proprietary research, host exclusive summits and meetings, and build and manage a differentiated founder and executive network.
Tigera raises $30M in Series B funding for its Kubernetes Security and Compliance Platform. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Snowflake scoops up another blizzard of cash with $450M round. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Clear Labs raises $21M Series B2 to expand Clear Safety. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Jake is an unusual talent, and has that rare combination of insight, judgment, operating skill, the learning mindset and deep partnering ability that we have found to be essential in early stage venture capital.
Shape Security honored as fastest growing company in the Bay Area by Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500™. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
The V21 tracks the investment activity of a select group of the industry’s top venture firms. It is no secret that most startups fail, and that returns for the median venture firm often lag the S&P 500. The V21 data set represents more of the quality and less of the clutter.
Will Next-Generation Sequencing dethrone PCR? Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Drip Capital helps exporters access working capital. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Cohesity raised $250M in SoftBank Vision funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
The early-stage financing world is changing rapidly. But what won’t change is what it takes to build a great company, and the absolute priority and intense difficulty of laying the foundation right the first time.
Read how crypto startup Basis raised $133M. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
How Human Interest helps small businesses set up 401Ks. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Each year Wing surveys the IoT landscape through our IoT Startup State of the Union. We do this to understand what is happening beyond the headlines, and share these insights with our community. This year, we expanded our data set to 3670 deals, across 68 IoT sub-categories, between 2013 and 2017.
Juvo announces Samsung NEXT collaboration to deliver “Access for All.” Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Read about Captain401 rebranding as Human Interest and raising $11M to help small businesses. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Human Interest raises $11M in Series A funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
2017 witnessed a Cambrian explosion of new cryptoasset projects and a commensurate interest in the space by entrepreneurs, investors, institutions and governments.
Snowflake lands whopping $263M for its data warehouse. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Snowflake closes $263M in growth funding to enable data economy. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Tigera raises $10M to help enterprises secure their cloud native applications. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Since emerging from stealth in September 2016, Juvo has been on an impressive growth trajectory. The company has increased the number of mobile subscribers it reaches via partnerships with mobile operators from 100M to 500M across 25 countries and four continents.
Cohesity ranked #4 in Forbes 2017 Billion Dollar Startup list. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Juvo raises $40M to bring financial inclusion to emerging markets. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Enjoy our Q&A with Steve Polsky, Juvo’s CEO, who reveals his inspiration for creating the company and talks about the impact it is having. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Observations from the 2025 Enterprise Tech 30, on the rise of AI-native applications, agents and fundraising in AI.
From legacy giants like SAP and Tableau to emerging winners like Omni and Inventive, the next chapter of BI needs speed, governance, and AI-ready analytics.
AI-powered app companies have three key areas of opportunity—vertical/domain-specific software, apps with strong network effects, and certain horizontal software markets—where they can safely create value without facing direct competition from foundation model companies.
As more AI colleagues pop up across roles, we’re witnessing the emergence of the “agentic workforce”—specialized AI agents that slot into specific roles within a functional area or vertical, promising to give organizations more leverage in that area.
The AI-driven product landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, with leading SaaS and AI companies racing to innovate and outpace each other in a rapidly converging market.
The recent emergence of DeepSeek has sparked countless conversations about the future of AI, and the Wing team is no exception. Yesterday, the conversation in the office revolved around this topic dominating the zeitgeist. As our founding partner Peter Wagner started, “Let’s look down the road. What are the implications?”
The implications of AI agents replacing junior-level tasks traditionally performed by entry-level associates are profound and far-reaching. Let's look a bit deeper.
Cyber threats are evolving faster than ever, and organizations need to be both vigilant and similarly adaptive to the changing landscape.
If you’re a startup founder or builder looking to harness AI and build agents in other domains, here are five lessons from coding’s success—each describing how coding benefits, how you can apply it, and an example in various verticals.
Let's look at five key themes for 2025 in AI and technology: rapid reasoning advancements through test-time compute, emergence of practical multimodal AI applications, AI agents functioning as autonomous workers, increased industry consolidation, and a more open IPO window.
Wing held its 2nd annual invite-only summit for 300 chief-level officers in healthcare and biotech. The event featured discussions led by prominent executives from companies like Genentech, OpenAI, Google, Eli Lilly, and others.
Wing partner and head of research Rajeev Chand sat down with Yann LeCun, the godfather of AI and current chief AI scientist at Meta, for a fireside chat at this year's CES conference.
Last week, Databricks raised a massive $10 billion Series J, during which they also disclosed some high level financials of their business. This, coupled with Snowflake being public, gives us the opportunity to compare the financials of these two, as I’m sure every growth fund that looked at the Databricks round did.
Go-to-market (“GTM”) is the lifeblood of every company. As companies scale, it becomes increasingly complex and difficult to reach the right customers with on-brand marketing when they are ready to buy.
The closing of this deal isn't just a culmination of years of hard work; it's the beginning of an exciting new chapter in data security and management.
ServiceTitan, the $772M ARR vertical SaaS leader for the trades industry, files for IPO. With 24% YoY growth, strong retention, and improving margins, it's poised to disrupt the $13B market. However, complex share conversion agreements add intrigue to the IPO timing and valuation.
Software vendors face a pivotal moment as AI capabilities advance, with competing visions of either their decline through democratized development or explosive growth through AI-powered automation.
Stripe's data shows AI startups reaching $1M revenue 4 months faster than SaaS, and scaling to $30M five times faster. Yet AI faces higher compute costs out of the gate. Does AI still have the advantage?
The perception that AI is expensive is rapidly becoming outdated. Through a combination of technological breakthroughs and market forces, we're entering an era where intelligence could become nearly free to use.
The recent antitrust trial against Google pulled back the curtain on some of the company’s business practices, revealing how they created an insurmountable advantage over Google’s competitors.
The AI industry is at a pivotal moment as open-source models narrow the performance gap with proprietary giants. This shift could reshape how AI is developed, deployed and monetized.
We’re excited to partner with Billables as they help professional services firms automate their mundane administrative tasks so that they can focus on their core work.
AI is shifting the long-standing seat-based pricing model in SaaS. Discover how forward-thinking companies are innovating their pricing strategies to reflect the true value of AI-enhanced solutions.
Going broad isn't always the path to success. Find out how a focused approach can lead to stronger growth and better product-market fit.
243 new startups pitched their companies to an invitation-only group of venture capitalists last week at the 39th Y Combinator Demo Day. Core themes for YC S24 included AI agents, voice AI agents, AI copoilots, and AI devtools.
AI is disrupting and transforming traditional business processes. This startup built an AI-powered sales rep — and turned it into a powerful growth accelerator for their own business.
Krishna Rangasayee, founder of SiMa.ai, shares his hard-won insights on building a stellar startup team. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and hire candidates that will drive your company's success.
From startups to tech giants, a new mantra is emerging: Do more with less. Dive into the forces driving this trend and learn why operational fitness might be the key to keeping your competitive edge.
Apple's has announced a welcome new entrant to the AI space. With technological innovation and a continued focus on user privacy, Apple Intelligence is a leap forward for personal AI agents.
In Varun Mehta’s Founder Docs, he shares his insights on the importance of getting product-market fit right as early as possible in the startup journey, and what to do when you’re struggling to find it.
Lean startup financial management can be challenging. Vinay Jain, founder of MadMen AI, offers practical tips on expense reviews and strategic hiring that can help you run a lean company right from day one.
Orby observes, learns, and automates - no need to craft the perfect question, rather, the system will intelligently suggest automations for your workflows across apps.
Today, we are in a time of “market divergence”, in which companies in the fast-moving water of AI have seemingly insatiable investor demand, while those perceived to be in the back-eddies of prior technology cycles can find themselves to be almost unfinanceable.
We are excited to unveil today the Angels’ Share 100. The Angels’ Share 100 is an exclusive list of the most active angel investors in the most promising startups in enterprise tech. The mission is to serve as an information and relationship platform for the founder and angel community.
Edo Liberty, the mind behind Pinecone, reveals how his background as a scientist has uniquely positioned him for startup success and shares the benefits of applying a research-driven approach to entrepreneurship.
There’s a lot more to the "why now" question for any new business than meets the eye. But when startups get it right, they set themselves up for massive success.
Today marks an exciting milestone as we proudly share our investment in Inventive and its groundbreaking platform aimed at revolutionizing the integration of AI into SaaS products.
As the semiconductor industry continues to innovate and evolve, two companies — Synopsys and Cadence — have emerged as the critical foundation of chip design. Read on for a deep dive into the world of EDA software.
What if I told you that one of the biggest keys to startup success lies in something most founders overlook? It's not about having the best product or the most funding — it’s about deliberately defining your culture before you start hiring.
What do the most promising enterprise tech startups have in common? From Generative AI to product-led growth, discover the biggest trends from the 2024 ET30 list and what they mean for the future of the industry.
In this exploration of computing's evolutionary timeline, you’ll learn the key milestones that have shaped the AI revolution. From personal computers to GPUs and the rise of generative AI, find out how these developments are paving the way for a trillion-dollar opportunity.
Over the past two days, Y Combinator held its 38th Demo Day, which continues to be one of the most exciting sets of days in tech. We had the privilege to participate, and we congratulate each of the YC W24 batch founders on their companies’ launches!
Reddit, the front page of the internet, is going public. Dive into the company's journey, challenges and opportunities as it navigates the path to becoming a publicly traded entity.
Want to build a thriving startup? Discover the top missteps founders make and how to avoid them.
Wing's Peter Wagner appeared on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings; listen in and check out the recording!
The unraveling of Adobe's $20 billion bid for Figma offers key insights into the regulatory roadblocks facing Big Tech mergers. Read on to get an analysis of what happened, and what might come next for M&A.
Wing is incredibly excited to congratulate the Cohesity and Veritas teams as they announce today a combined company that will undoubtedly and rapidly become the market leader in data security and management.
Wing recently hosted another installment of our Wing AI series, featuring Pinecone's Edo Liberty and Notion's Akshay Kothari in a conversation led by Wing founding partner Peter Wagner.
Tech giants like Amazon and Google are consistently making strategic investments in AI startups. Read on to find out more about Big Tech’s motivations and the broader implications for the technology sector.
We're pleased to share that Dr. Ansuman Satpathy has joined the Wing team as venture partner, helping us and founders shape the future of health and medicine.
Speed thrills — but it's often the steady and meticulous approach that seals the win. Discover how to build startups with a careful blend of patience and urgency.
Dig deeper into the story of Arm, a pivotal but understated force in the semiconductor industry, as we unravel the strategy and serendipity behind its successful IPO.
MotherDuck has recently made waves in the technology world with its innovative serverless data analytics platform. Built on the open-source DuckDB, it offers a new approach to handling modern data challenges.
Retool's latest State of AI Report reveals surprising truths about artificial intelligence in the workplace. Read on to find out how AI is truly being used in businesses today.
The AI workload super cycle represents a profound transformation in the technology landscape, underpinned by cutting-edge GPU hardware innovation and a surging demand for AI-driven tasks.
Wing founder partner Peter Wagner sat down with Nick Moran for an interview on The Full Ratchet, a podcast about demystifying venture capital. Though the episode revolved around Peter’s lessons from seed investing in Snowflake and Gong, the conversation ended up a masterclass in investment philosophy.
From its inception to its impressive IPO, Instacart has been a game changer in the grocery industry. Read on to get the details on the company’s metrics, stakeholders and future outlook in the fast-evolving retail delivery landscape.
We're excited to welcome Gradient.ai into the Wing family, as they announce their $10 million seed raise. Our collaboration with Gradient started over a year ago, spurred by their adeptness in crafting custom ML models honed at reputable institutions like Netflix, Pinterest, Google, Splunk, and Meta.
Catch the recording of Wing AI: Getting to 10 million users, held October 2 at Notion's headquarters on Harrison Street in San Francisco, featuring insights from Keith Peiris of Tome and Paul Yacoubian of Copy.ai, led by Wing's Zach DeWitt.
Today, we’re thrilled to see SiMa's vision take a massive step forward, and to congratulate the SiMa.ai team as they mark two major milestones in their journey to revolutionize machine learning at the edge.
Change is afoot in the SaaS world. Take a look at OpenView's 2023 product benchmarks report to find out what today's top-performing PLG companies are doing to grow and scale.
Meta's Threads took the online realm by storm, but what product lessons lie behind its meteoric (if brief) rise? Find out what startups can learn from Zuck's innovative launch.
Being a CEO can feel like you’re navigating uncharted territory with no guidebook or rules. Leadership is complex, and often the most transformative work happens backstage, away from the public gaze. It’s a lot like building a product.
On Monday, July 17, Wing founding partner Peter Wagner joined with a group of honorees from the Enterprise Tech 30 list to ring the Nasdaq opening bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite Studio in Times Square. Catch the live recording of the event, as well as Peter's remarks.
The new fund will be exclusively dedicated to early-stage investing and long-term company building in B2B technology with a focus on companies central to the construction of the AI-first technology stack.
Wing Four will be perhaps the most significant pool of early-stage capital and company-building resources dedicated to enabling the AI-first transformation of business.
We at Wing are thrilled to announce that we are leading Outverse’s $6 million seed round. Outverse is a state-of-the-art community platform for forward-thinking companies that reimagines how product teams connect with their customers and users.
We're excited to announce our partnership with Slang.ai as they work to help SMBs leverage the power of AI to better serve their customers.
Ever wondered about the hidden considerations seasoned investors are thinking about when they’re evaluating startups? Read on to uncover the hidden aspects that make all the difference when identifying great investment opportunities.
Learn how your startup can leverage the power of large language models (LLMs) to build defensible moats, establish market dominance and create a sustainable path to success.
Critics can help your startup uncover hidden issues and improve your customer experience. Find out how to use constructive criticism to create better products and services.
The mission of the V21 study is to examine early-stage financing dynamics amongst the industry’s highest quality startups. We analyze and report on the trends and characteristics of companies invested in by at least one of the 21 elite venture capital firms, the “V21."
The vector representation of data, and the types of processing it requires, is the lingua franca of AI and truly horizontal in its impact.
While there are still technical challenges to overcome, the future of generative AI looks promising, and it will unquestionably play an increasingly important role in our lives.
It is apparent, in our view, that the security ecosystem is more advanced, more prepared, and more engaged than ever before. It is not clear, however, that our collective work is sufficient to change the current trajectory of cyber attacks, which seems to be only “up and to the right”. Fundamentally new approaches may indeed be called for.
Last week, the YC Winter 2023 batch presented their new businesses to an invitation-only group of investors, press, and others in the startup community. The two days included 265 startups, who were selected by YC from a pool of 20,000 applicants.
AirOps is launching a series of AI apps that are task specific, easy to install and configure, and are scalable and available everywhere. We are proud to announce our partnership with the AirOps team and lead their $7 million seed round.
Find out why hiring top performers is crucial to the growth and success of your startup — and get some tips on how to identify and attract A-players for your team.
Learn from Userflow’s co-founder how the user onboarding app startup beat the odds with bootstrapping and PLG — while enabling PLG for other companies.
The world’s biggest tech companies revealed their plans for incorporating generative AI into their products and services at recent earnings calls. Read this round-up to find out what’s on the horizon for GenAI.
We wish to congratulate the entire team at Gong on their tremendous progress. Gong was founded by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef, and it has been our honor to partner with them in their journey.
What the last two downturns tell us about the future of early stage financing. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
The Spectrum Labs team has deep experience building data-driven enterprise technology businesses. Founders Justin Davis and Josh Newman were key leaders at Krux Digital, a pioneer of marketing data technology that was acquired by Salesforce.
The 2021 V21 analysis will reveal a sharp reversal of some of the trends we’ve been documenting to date. Most notably, deal sizes and valuations will undoubtedly decline, as will the number of deals closed.
Next-generation systems of record will be built around data at their core. The smarter incumbents are already trying to respond, but this could be an even more difficult transition for them than the leap to the cloud. Most won’t make it.
Data, Mobile and Cloud are driving a wave of change at a scale that we see only once in a generation. It is bigger than anything we’ve seen before and creates massive potential for innovators with great ideas. We look forward to working with founders and their early teams to lead this change and build companies that matter.
We look forward to working closely with Edo and the entire Pinecone team to enable the next wave of ML applications as AI takes center stage in the Modern Enterprise.
Buzzy storytelling startup Tome raises $43M from a who’s who in AI. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Snowflake is now a public company -- an overnight success, eight years in the making! I first met founders Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes in January 2013 (Marcin Zukowski was still in Europe) and led Wing’s investment in the Snowflake seed financing soon after. We have invested in every Snowflake financing since, right up to today’s historic IPO. But when we made our initial decision, things weren’t quite so obvious.
The Modern Enterprise is an agile workplace built on data and powered by AI. As these technologies touch more people and processes, their impact grows exponentially and transcends traditional organizational boundaries.
Writing business content is hard and time consuming—however, the need for great business writing only continues to grow. The acceleration of fully-digital products and experiences now means almost everyone at a business is a copywriter—whether you are the CEO, working in product, or writing ads for marketing campaigns.
Enterprise messaging services are starting to turn themselves into broader-based platforms. This is creating a new set of opportunities for startups that develop applications which can be embedded in the new communication tools.
Gaurav was recently invited to give the keynote speech at a startup conference run by Washington University in St Louis. During the event, he was interviewed by the local PBS television station and the conversation focused on what it takes to build a successful local entrepreneurial ecosystem. You can hear his thoughts in the video below:
Inc. Magazine on the rise of Jasper with Gaurav Garg. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Read more about the Hottest 25 startups of 2015. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.
Bold claims have been made about the potential of machine learning to improve the state of cyber security. At least some of them will turn out to be accurate.
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